South Lakes MP Tim Farron has called upon local NHS commissioners to give the green light to the Westmorland General Hospital radiotherapy centre bid, after new figures showed that the North West has higher than average cancer mortality figures.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has launched a last minute bid to help save Ambleside Police Station from being sold at auction this coming Tuesday.
South Lakes MP and Lib Dem Party President Tim Farron has welcomed today's announcement by Children and Families Minister Sarah Teather, that 3600 two-year-old children in Cumbria will be able to access free early years education.
South Lakes MP, Tim Farron, has used questions to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in the House of Commons this morning to call on the Government to take immediate action to help dairy farmers, many of whom have been hit with a second unfair price cut in as many months.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron has written to the new Director General of the BBC today, inviting him to come to Cumbria and meet with BBC staff and members of the public to answer their questions.
South Lakes MP Tim Farron, Staveley in Cartmel Councillor Sue Sanderson and Cumbria County Councillor Rod Wilson have today welcomed the news that planning permission has been given for new development to complete the Backbarrow Ironworks scheme and have heralded the news as a 'win for the community and for the protection of such an important historical site'.
